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Tag: Hard Rock
Cream – Disraeli Gears: #619 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’ve been waiting so long to be where I’m going, in the sunshine of your love.
Rollins Band – Get Some Go Again: #655 of best 1,000 albums ever!
No safety net: you get what you get, what you settle for.
The Runaways – The Runaways: #658 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Down the streets I’m the girl next door. I’m the fox you’ve been waiting for.
UFO – Phenomenon: #663 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Livin’, lovin’ on the run, so far away from you.
Boston – Boston: #675 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I lost myself in a familiar song. I closed my eyes and I slipped away.
Tenacious D – Rize of the Fenix: #687 of best 1,000 albums ever!
To be the best we got to pass the test we gotta make it all the way to the top of the mountain.
The Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers: #690 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Yeah, when you call my name I salivate like a Pavlov dog.
The Who – Who’s Next: #705 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Take a bow for the new revolution.
T. Rex – Electric Warrior: #709 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Bang a gong. Get it on.
Skid Row – Skid Row: #713 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Don’t wait for 18 and life to check this one out.
Urge Overkill – Saturation: #729 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Alt rock with an ironic edge that still nonetheless rocks.
Cream – Wheels of Fire: #741 of best 1,000 albums ever!
There are some powerful powerful, favorite favorite, classic classics going on here.
Jethro Tull – Aqualung: #754 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Without pretension, this album deserves best 1,000 albums ever project retention.
Various Artists – Say Anything: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: #759 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Amazing soundtrack from an amazing movie… almost too amazing? Nah.
Black Sabbath – Master of Reality: #767 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Heavy metal is bestowed upon We Mere Mortals. And it is good.
The Black Keys – El Camino: #785 of best 1,000 albums ever!
This one trucks (vans?), hammers, and stomps.
Pearl Jam – Ten: #790 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The pinnacle of Pearl Jam’s output. At least so far.
Supersuckers – La Mano Cornuda: #800 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It rocks out while having run rocking out while letting YOU know that they’re… oh, just keep on reading for more.
Funkadelic – Maggot Brain: #813 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A work of psychedelicized funk/soul/rock bizarro-genius that you may choose to hit and/or quit.
Porno for Pyros – Good God’s Urge: #816 of best 1,000 albums ever!
An album to dig one last time under the Tahitian moon.
Le Butcherettes – Cry Is for the Flies: #817 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Wildly and gloriously weird punk-y art-meets-garage rock. Just dig it.
Brother Meat – Extraordinarily Moist and Delicious: #819 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You want it, you need it, you got it… you got it!
Alice in Chains – Facelift: #830 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Lots of AiC in slower-paced grunge mode? Yes please.
Rush – Moving Pictures: #831 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Great hard rock with just the right touch of prog rock-y flair.
Cracker – Kerosene Hat: #848 of best 1,000 albums ever!
They keep it low, they keep it hot, they keep heads covered.
Led Zeppelin – Coda: #849 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Ooh, it’s my love. Ooh, it’s my own true love.
Audioslave – Out of Exile: #853 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The supergroup comprised of Rage Against the Machine (minus Zach de la Rocha) and Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell finds their cohesive sound.
Scorpions – Love At First Sting: #859 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Well-crafted hair metal. You might say it’ll rock you like… a powerful force of nature.
Survivor – Eye of the Tiger: #870 of best 1,000 albums ever!
And the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night.
Judas Priest – British Steel: #898 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Not including it would be akin to, say… breaking the law, for example?
The Murder City Devils – In Name and Blood: #904 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Spooky cool carnivalesque organ against Misfits-ish dirty, fast-paced hardcore punk? Uh, yes please.
Mott the Hoople – All the Young Dudes: #905 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Rock ‘n roll meets proto-punk meets David Bowie-inspired early ‘70s glam rock. And chocolate and peanut butter (somehow?).
The J. Geils Band – Freeze Frame: #913 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A delicious hamburger of fun early ‘80s rock ‘n roll.
White Zombie – La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume 1: #916 of best 1,000 albums ever!
An undeniable hurricane of thrashy, trashy, dirty, funky metal that gets under your skin like very few albums can.
Europe – The Final Countdown: #459 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Do I need to finally say it? Do I need to count it down?
The Dead Weather – Dodge and Burn: #930 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It gets under your skin, holding a dark, rocking, and compelling power.
Death – …For the Whole World to See: #931 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A great big blast of proto-punk angst and passion and loud crashing guitars.
Living Colour – Collideoscope: #933 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A lesser work of one of great hard rock bands still easily makes this here list.
Arctic Monkeys – Who the F*** Are Arctic Monkeys? #937 of best 1,000 albums ever!
This is a (small!) collection of songs that demanded to make this list by a fun, brash, and talented band at their early best.
Screaming Trees – Sweet Oblivion: #938 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s delicate (grunge?), but it all clicks.
Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath: #949 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The definition of heavy metal.
The Gits – Frenching the Bully: #980 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Mia Zapata’s vocals matched with urgent, raucous, punky Seattle grunge energy.
Clutch – Psychic Warfare: #981 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Tight-as-a-drum, chugging, thunderous, and gloriously aggressive metal.
Steppenwolf – The Second: #999 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Steppenwolf is a blend of late ‘60s psychedelia and hard rock which, melded together, gets you the term Acid Rock.